Virginia · Nonprofit
APPLE RIDGE FARM INC
APPLE RIDGE FARM INC (Virginia) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $766,578 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING WESTERN VIRGINIA ($128,905). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $440k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $767k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Apple Ridge Farm Inc does
Mission
Apple ridge farm transforms the lives of our community's underserved children and their families through engagement in unparalleled educational, cultural and outdoor experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Academic summer camp is apple ridge farm's flagship program, providing low-income children ages 6-16 with a daily mix of academic instruction and outdoor activities. Instructional areas focus on reading, writing, steam (science, technology, engineering, art and math), and environmental education. Outdoor activities include organic agriculture, hiking, swimming, tennis and challenge courses. Project-based learning techniques are utilized, and emphasis is placed on developing each child's social- emotional skills. At family camp day, parents attend presentations and workshops to assist them in developing postsecondary academic or vocational education plans for their children.
$433,557 spent$2,920 earned by the program100% of program spendingEbase usa-blue ridge: lessons in sustainability is an educational program structured around apple ridge farm's unique off-the-grid learning lab housed in a former 1917 railroad boxcar that is heated, cooled, and powered exclusively by wind and solar power. Our ebase curriculum is designed to teach young people about sustainability and climate change. The ebase program is part of academic summer camp and is also offered as a stand- alone program.
The environmental education program provides science and nature field trips and educational programs to elementary and middle school students. Students learn about biology, ecology, and conservation through field identification of terrestrial and aquatic species, and hands-on learning about life cycles, adaptation, and conservation of each species.
The aspire mindsets program is an in-school and after school pilot program designed to combat behavioral issues in young men. This pilot program is taking place at fairview elementary school and consists of 5th grade boys who are experiencing extreme behavioral issues in the classroom. With a combination of character building exercises and mentorship this program seeks to decrease the frequency and severity of behavioral issues in our youth and increase their potential for future success. Get outside is a single day program for any youth serving organization, church, school, or any of our current partnerships to be able to come and experience apple ridge farm for a half day or full day adventure free of charge. This program focuses on the "whole child experience- and incorporates environmental education, physical wellness, mindfulness, as well as adventure in our high and low ropes courses. The program runs throughout the year with the exception of during our academic summer camp.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $433,557.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.9M to $2.1M (+10%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 11% · 2018 8% · 2019 15% · 2020 19% · 2021 13% · 2022 23% · 2023 8% · 2024 6% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
James Christopher Lee
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $47k → $82k.
5 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of APPLE RIDGE FARM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
APPLE RIDGE FARM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
43% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund APPLE RIDGE FARM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 21% · 2019 50% · 2020 30% · 2021 19% · 2022 28% · 2023 24% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of APPLE RIDGE FARM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
79% of APPLE RIDGE FARM INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $207k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like APPLE RIDGE FARM INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds APPLE RIDGE FARM INC?
- APPLE RIDGE FARM INC (Virginia) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $766,578 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING WESTERN VIRGINIA ($128,905). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does APPLE RIDGE FARM INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $766,578 in grants to APPLE RIDGE FARM INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of APPLE RIDGE FARM INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING WESTERN VIRGINIA is the largest funder on record, with $128,905 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like APPLE RIDGE FARM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 29 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing